54 minutes ago
Setting the AI Foundations
1 day ago
The Frenetic Developer
2 days ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
3 days ago
Loss of Flow
4 days ago
The Perfect Update
5 days ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
6 days ago
The Dying Seconds
1 week ago
Learning for the Team
1 week ago
The Flea Market
1 week ago
The Author’s Notes
54 minutes ago
If you’re running your business from Notepad, AI won’t help much. Maybe if you had thousands of text files to comb through, it could provide an analysis and give you some details on what is what. But would you want to keep running your business that way? Would you want to, inefficiently, ask AI to parse through thousands of text files of data on a daily basis, just to “figure out” what to do? At some point, the AI is going to come back and say, “there is a better way to do this”. So why not do that better …
The Frenetic Developer
Greg Thomas
Fast, energetic, and Wild in an Uncontrolled way – that is Frenetic. It sounds like a great word, but when I think of it, I think of rubber balls bouncing off the wall in a completely uncoordinated fashion. It looks like lots is getting done; it feels like process, but what it is is just movement with no goal directed from it. There is no point in trying to “Out-Prompt” someone; there is no value, there is no purpose. With AI and immediate development, we’re moving, not inching, but full on moving, towards a continued world of Frenetic Development where …
2 days ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
Greg Thomas
Who do you really, truly need at that next meeting? Who do you not need? I’m sure lots of people want to be at your meeting, but do they need to be there. If they don’t need to be there, don’t invite them. We’re past the era of “they might need to hear something”, there is a new era beginning and starts with need and value. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
1 week ago
The Author’s Notes
I never used to read the author’s notes before getting into a book – “Who cared what the person thought when they were writing this masterpiece? Get me to good stuff and let me know how it ends… SHOW ME THAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT”. But more and more, I’m fascinated by them in understanding what someone went through in creating this piece of art. Starting a new book today, from 1986, the author had about 10 pages of notes walking you through thought processes and how this book was their first idea but then they needed a prequel (and oddly enough …
1 week ago
AI RecursiveTechDebt
Right now, when working with AI-generated code, I’m trying more and more to focus on architectural thinking: what if what comes next is a small bug that I or someone else needs to fix? Small bugs don’t need an entire app flow to be regenerated; it’s a small change, a quick PR, and off we go. That’s the benefit of a strong architecture – you make the change where you need to make it and not all over the place. If you have a framework for building services that works, AI inherits that infrastructure and leverages it, expanding it and …
2 weeks ago
The Complaint Department
All complaints are in, and wow, there are a lot. The complaints are easy; anyone can write a complaint about anything. I don’t like the grip on my chainsaw (I know nothing about grips). I wish my car’s cupholders were 3 inches back and could hold 3 drinks instead of 2 (when ordering for the family). Many cool products and inventions come from complaints – watching what people are building with 3d printers to solve the above problems and many more is incredible to watch. You can keep chirping at the Complaint Department, or pick one up and make it …